How many baby Mexican small-eared shrews are in a litter?
A Mexican small-eared shrew (Cryptotis mexicana) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 99 grams (0.22 lbs) and measure 2.2 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Soricidae family (genus: Cryptotis). An adult Mexican small-eared shrew grows up to a size of 6.1 cm (0′ 3″).
To have a reference: Humans obviously usually have a litter size of one ;). Their babies are in the womb of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks) and reach an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). They weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual, and reach an average age of 75 years.
The Mexican small-eared shrew (Cryptotis mexicana) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is endemic to Mexico.
Other animals of the family Soricidae
Mexican small-eared shrew is a member of the Soricidae, as are these animals:
- Eurasian pygmy shrew with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Fraser’s musk shrew with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Crocidura grandiceps weighting only 23 grams
- Lesser large-headed shrew weighting only 12 grams
- Dent’s shrew weighting only 4 grams
- Carmen Mountain shrew weighting only 4 grams
- Sahelian tiny shrew weighting only 6 grams
- Malayan water shrew weighting only 55 grams
- Flat-skulled shrew with 7 babies per pregnancy
- African giant shrew weighting only 33 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Mexican small-eared shrew
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Panamint kangaroo rat
- Lowland ringtail possum
- Little desert pocket mouse
- Chinese ferret-badger
- Long-tailed mouse
- Siberian roe deer
- Marsh rabbit
- Common rock rat
- Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat
- Rüppell’s fox
Animals with the same weight as a Mexican small-eared shrew
What other animals weight around 7 grams (0.02 lbs)?
- Croslet horseshoe bat weighting 7 grams
- Egyptian pygmy shrew weighting 7 grams
- Large-toothed shrew weighting 8 grams
- Natterer’s bat weighting 7 grams
- Rhinolophus sedulus weighting 8 grams
- Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew weighting 6 grams
- Malagasy serotine weighting 6 grams
- Thomas’s nectar bat weighting 7 grams
- East Asian tailless leaf-nosed bat weighting 7 grams
- Micronomus weighting 8 grams
Animals with the same size as a Mexican small-eared shrew
Also reaching around 6.1 cm (0′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Common shrew gets as big as 7.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lowe’s shrew gets as big as 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Jamaican flower bat gets as big as 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Johnston’s forest shrew gets as big as 5.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Seychelles sheath-tailed bat gets as big as 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Balochistan gerbil gets as big as 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Grasse’s shrew gets as big as 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Little desert pocket mouse gets as big as 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew gets as big as 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Cuban flower bat gets as big as 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)